A police vehicle drives in the smoke during clashes with opposition supporters demonstrating in Lome. Togolese security forces clashed with opposition supporters in the capital Lome, with officers firing tear gas on protesters who responded by throwing rocks and setting tires on fire.

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A woman swims through the Isar river in Munich, southern Germany.

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A resident searches through debris in the Kapuk Muara district of Jakarta, following a fire caused by a power surge. The north Jakarta fire department chief said that 300 houses were burnt down, making some 1500 people homeless.

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Swimmers jump on Lake Zurich, during the tradional lake crossing from the lido Mythenquai to lido Tiefenbrunnen, in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Army military police rush to stand guard as rural workers participating in a protest march arrive at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia. According to officials more than 5,000 representatives of rural social movements marched to the presidential palace demanding the government resolve the country’s agrarian issues including the demarcation of indigenous lands and financing for small family farms.

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Japanese toilet maker TOTO employee Akiko Matsuyama gets on a “Toilet Bike Neo” displayed at its showroom in Fujisawa, near Tokyo. TOTO rolled out the eco-friendly three-wheel 250cc motorcycle with a specially customized toilet-shaped seat that runs on bio-fuel from the discharge of livestock or waste water.

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A visitor to the Gardens by the Bay is silhouetted against illuminated flower billboards in Singapore.

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People play football at Juhu Beach against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in Mumbai, India.

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Residents of the District of Columbia participate in U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s 15th annual job fair at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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Aerofex, a Manhattan Beach aerospace company, has developed a Jedi-style hoverbike that can fly nearly 30 mph and hover inches above the ground.

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President Obama arrives to speak at a campaign event at Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas, Nev.

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A spray of sand laced water shoots out from the Dredge Jadwin, a US Army Corps of Engineers vessel that is clearing out some of the silt and left over mud and debris from last year’s record flood on the Mississippi River and cutting a deeper channel for barges and their towboats to navigate north of Greenville, Miss.

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Vehicles and pedestrians make their way down a flooded King Street in St. Augustine, Fla. after a severe storm drenched downtown, bringing 2 to 3 inches of rain for more than an hour.

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Mining community gathers at a hill dubbed the “Hill of Horror” during a memorial service for miners killed during clashes at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in Rustenburg, northwest of Johannesburg. South Africans held a memorial service on Thursday at a platinum mine where police shot dead 34 strikers, bloodshed that revived memories of apartheid-era violence and laid bare workers’ anger over enduring inequalities since the end of white rule. Some 500 people crammed into a marquee pitched at the platinum mine, near what has been dubbed the “Hill of Horror” where police shot dead 34 striking miners in the deadliest security incident since apartheid ended in 1994.

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A woman meditate while enjoying the view from Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.